Niceville, FL – The U.S. Marshals Florida
Regional Fugitive Task Force apprehended the last two suspects of five
people who have been charged by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office with
Kidnapping, Robbery and Aggravated Assault. Bertina Eloise Krider and
Shannon Elizabeth Yeary were captured early this morning around 1 a.m. at a
home on Kelly Mill Road in Niceville. The home is reportedly that of a
relative of Krider’s. The women, who are both 28 years old, were taken into
custody without incident. Earlier this week the Okaloosa Sheriff’s Office
arrested three other suspects in Destin, Fla. Twenty-two-year old Brittany
Plitt and 23-year old Heather Sutton both of Fort Walton Beach; and 28-year
old Chase Stewart of Destin, were arrested Tuesday. All five people
allegedly kidnapped and bound, repeatedly beating and burning with
cigarettes, 23-year old Bethany Stanley of Niceville on Monday. According to
Stanley, they drove around Okaloosa County in a White GMC pick-up truck for
nearly 24 hours with Stanley in the back. Supposedly Plitt and Sutton
believed that the victim had stolen drugs from their home on Rockport Drive
in Fort Walton Beach. All five alleged kidnappers are still in Okaloosa
County Jail. Plitt, Sutton, Krider, and Yeary do not have bonds and Stewart
has a $250,000 bond.

In 2012, The U.S. Marshals and their task forces arrested more than 123,000
fugitives of which over 86,000 of them were state and local fugitives,
nearly 4,000 were homicide suspects and more than 5,000 of them were violent
gang members. As well, among that number of arrests more than 12,000 of them
were sex offenders.